The Times sub-editors - from Natalie Bennett to Graham Greene - who have risen from behind the desk to find fame

You can’t blame sub-editors for having status anxiety: our very job title
marks us out as underlings. Unlike writers, we never see our names in the
paper, and unlike editors, we don’t have any power. So what does a Times
sub-editor actually do? Well, along with checking facts, cutting articles to
length and correcting spelling and grammar, we write headlines.

But very occasionally — as this week, when the former Times sub
Natalie Bennett was elected leader of the Green Party — we also make
headlines.

Remembered by colleagues for her cheerful manner, contribution to TheTimes
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